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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald1925

Behind Gatsby's summer parties, Nick Carraway discovers a longing that wealth cannot quiet.

Portrait of Jay GatsbyGatsbyPortrait of Nick CarrawayNickPortrait of Daisy BuchananDaisyPortrait of Tom BuchananTomPortrait of Jordan BakerJordanPortrait of Myrtle WilsonMyrtlePortrait of George WilsonGeorge
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The Great Gatsby, illustrated page 1: My father gave me advice: remember that people haven’t had the advantages that I’ve had.
My father gave me advice: remember that people haven’t had the advantages that I’ve had.
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope; but my tolerance has a limit.
Gatsby alone was exempt: I scorned what he represented,
yet he possessed an extraordinary gift for hope.
Gatsby turned out all right;
what preyed on his dreams closed out my interest in men's sorrows.
The Great Gatsby, illustrated page 2: In spring twenty-two, restless after war, I left my prosperous Middle Western family to learn bonds.
In spring twenty-two, restless after war, I left my prosperous Middle Western family to learn bonds.
Father agreed to finance me for a year.
I told him.
I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.
With books and summer, I felt life beginning over again.
My unknown neighbour was Gatsby.
Eighty dollars a month bought me the consoling proximity of millionaires.
How do you get to West Egg village?
The Great Gatsby, illustrated page 3: That evening I drove to East Egg for dinner with Daisy Buchanan and her husband, Tom Buchanan.
That evening I drove to East Egg for dinner with Daisy Buchanan and her husband, Tom Buchanan.
Daisy was my second cousin once removed; I’d known Tom, once a celebrated football player, in college.
Tom’s people were enormously wealthy.
He and Daisy drifted where people played polo and were rich together.
Daisy called the move permanent. I thought Tom would drift on forever.
The Great Gatsby, illustrated page 4: That warm windy evening, Tom Buchanan was waiting on his front porch.
That warm windy evening, Tom Buchanan was waiting on his front porch.
He had changed since New Haven.
It was a body capable of enormous leverage, a cruel body.
We were never intimate; I felt he approved of me and wanted me to like him.
I’ve got a nice place here.
It belonged to Demaine, the oil man.
We’ll go inside.
The Great Gatsby, illustrated page 5: Tom brought me through the high hallway into a bright, rosy-coloured room.
Tom brought me through the high hallway into a bright, rosy-coloured room.
I listened to curtains whip and a picture groan.
The younger of the two was a stranger to me.
The Great Gatsby, illustrated page 6: I’m p-paralysed with happiness.
That was a way she had.
She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker.
Almost any exhibition of complete self-sufficiency…
…draws a stunned tribute from me.
I looked back at my cousin.
Her low, thrilling voice promised exciting things in the next hour.
I’m p-paralysed with happiness.
The Great Gatsby, illustrated page 7: On my way East, I stopped in Chicago; a dozen people sent Daisy their love.
On my way East, I stopped in Chicago; a dozen people sent Daisy their love.
I told him.
Do they miss me?
The whole town is desolate.
How gorgeous!
You ought to see the baby.
She’s asleep. She’s three years old. Haven’t you ever seen her?
Never.
What you doing, Nick?
I’m a bond man.
Who with?
Never heard of them.
You will.
I’d be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.
The Great Gatsby, illustrated page 8: It was the first word she had uttered since I came into the room.
It was the first word she had uttered since I came into the room.
He swallowed his cocktail as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.
Before I could say he was my neighbour, dinner was announced.
Absolutely!
I’m stiff.
Don’t look at me.
No, thanks.
I’m absolutely in training.
You are!
You live in West Egg.
I know somebody there.
I don’t know a single—
You must know Gatsby.
Gatsby?
What Gatsby?
The Great Gatsby, illustrated page 9: We went out onto a rosy-coloured porch, open toward the sunset.
We went out onto a rosy-coloured porch, open toward the sunset.
Why candles?
In two weeks it’ll be the longest day in the year.
We ought to plan something.
Look!
I hurt it.
You did it, Tom.
That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man...
...a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a—
I hate that word ‘hulking,’ even in kidding.

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About The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a psychological novel of observation, social contrast, and romantic possibility, set among the wealthy communities of Long Island in the summer of 1922. Its narrator, Nick Carraway, arrives from the Midwest to learn the bond business and rents a modest house near extravagant estates, including the mansion of the enigmatic Gatsby. Through Nick’s wary but receptive perspective, the book examines rich people, married women, first loves, and the uneasy gap between outward privilege and private feeling. The setting is bright with lawns, water, automobiles, fashionable houses, and promises of a new beginning, yet Nick’s judgments suggest that glamour and moral uncertainty will remain closely linked.

Fitzgerald’s prose is elegant, observant, and richly figurative, moving easily from dry social comedy to lyrical descriptions of weather, bodies, voices, and landscapes. Nick’s voice is reflective and intimate: he tries to reserve judgment while recognizing that tolerance has limits, and he is drawn to Gatsby’s extraordinary hope even as he distrusts the world surrounding it. Written in the atmosphere of the early Jazz Age and shaped by the restlessness following the Great War, the novel suits readers who enjoy polished narration, emotional ambiguity, class tensions, and portraits of people whose self-invention may be as compelling as their circumstances.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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